The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-07-22
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

quotations.: Wheat-No. 2. 7lIt0711zc-
Corn-No. 8, S61s9364c. Oats-No. 2,
S1lc Rye-No. /, SOC. Barley-No. 2, 6O3<c.
An observatory is to be added to the
Lawrence university.
Governor Rusk has appointed William
Helm, of Madison, Major of the First
Regiment, Wisconsin National Guards
Henry Miller, merchant of Pepin, fed
recently, leaving debts to the amount Of
el2OOO due La Crosse, Winona and Chi
cago merchants. He took with him car
!oaa OF the best of his stock, leaving about
q, OOU worth to satisfy his creditors.
Inc preliminary organization TOR the for
nation OF an independent military comma
ny was effected by fifty young men at Eau
Claire the other evening
The police department of La Crosse has
given notice to boys and men and other
persons thus inclined to stop playing ball
in the streets.
Henry P. Armsby, for four years past
professor of agricultural chemistry at the
Wisconsin State University, has been
elected director of the State Agricultural
Experiment Station of Pennsylvania and
will assume his new duties in the fall.
The Eau Claire Lumber Company pur-
chased large tracts of standing timber in
the State few days ago for $3.50, 900 cash.
At Fort Howard the other day John
Welsh was fined two dollars and costs for
getting on and off moving train.
Eleven pieces of silver money, tifty-ce
pieces and quarters of Spanish, United
States and English money, bearing dates
OF 1895, 1887, 1885 and 1884, were found
While excavations were being made for the
foundation of a new store at Green Bay a
lew days ago. When found they were as
black as iron but were easily cleaned
Several buildings have been burned on the
site, the last one being the Earle block, and
1t is probable that the silver was deposited
there through some of the fires.
Edward Brunk's cistern mandatory at
Milwaukee was destroyed by fire the other
morning. Henry Dettman, aged forty-five
years, endeavored to secure his tools and
was burned to death. He leaves a wifa
and several children. Pecuniary loss, ST.
$50.
The bodies of all the people who persisted
in the recent flames at Hurley, ten in num-
Der, have been removed from the debris,
but they were charred beyond recognition.
1t was thought that John Jarrett, the stage
carpenter, who was so badly burned,
would die. Jennie Sheridan, who Jumped
from the third-story window, escaped with
slight injuries.
William Crossely. of Calumet County,
celebrated his one-hundredth birthday a
few days ago.
Sheriff Costing, of Vernon County, re.
Gently killed rattlesnake that weighed
seven and half pounds and carried
twelve rattles.
Mrs William NJauuan,, recidiror II, Eopd
du Lac, gave birth to a fourteen pound
boy the other evening. her seventeenth,
without twins or triplets. Mrs Neumann
is forty-seven years old.
John Laggergreen, of Marinette, drove
a horse into a railway cattle guard recent
ly. He returned to the city for assistance
to extricate the animal, and IN his absence
a train passed, killing the horse and de-
stroying the buggy.
The sheriff of Ashland County receives
seven dollars week each for boarding
the sixty inmates of the county Jail.
Among the sojourners at Lancaster are
Mr.. Ramsay and son, who were objects
of hatred of the notorious Tollivers, of
Kentucky. They feared assassination,
which was several times attempted, and
went to Lancaster for safety.
A foater was discovered in the Chippewa
river two miles above Eau Claire, the
other evening. 1t proved to be the body
of middle-aged man, with sandy COM
plexion, dark hair, chin whiskers, and was
respectfully dressed in dark colored clothes.
There was no clue to his identity.
Governor Ruslz has moved from the old
executive quarters in the capitol and now
occupies new rooms in the south wing
The old Offices have been in use by Gov
errors since 1858.
William Eddy, young man formerly
mployed in the office of the Eau Claire
Lumber Company, was adtudged insane
few days ago.
Alexander Cooper, yarl foreman at
POTTS lumber mill, was killed by a Mil
waukee & Northern train at Depere few
days ago.
Edward Schmidt, laborer OF fifty four
years. fell from the third story Of the new
Science Hall to the basement at Madison
the other day and was killed.
Mrs. William Wilcox, mother of large
family, committed suicide by drowning re.
Gently near her home at Omro. She was
the victim of sudden insanity.
At the fifteenth annual session in Fond
du Lac recently of the Rock River Medi-
cal Society the following officers were
elected: Storrs Hall, of Rosendale, Presi-
dent; S. L. Marston, of Rond du Lac, Vice.
President; s. S. Stack, of Campbellsport,
Secretary.
The scow Toboggan sprung a leak and
sunk fifteen miles off Milwaukee the other
afternoon. The crew and captain were
saved. The scow carried 1900 barrels OF
salt and 40 001 feet of lumber
The body of Henry Gamm, aged twenty
seven years, was discovered in the river
at Watertown few afternoons ago. He
was seen to enter the water early in the
morning, and was supposed to have been
taken with a cramp He was unmarried
and carpenter by trade.
The Fair and Park Association at Green
Bay allow picnic parties to have the use of
the grounds free of charge.
A spark from locomotive the other day
destroyed twelve acres of winter wheat on
the farm Of James Craig, in jamestown,
Rock County. The same fire swept away
ten acres of clover on the farm Of Alpheus
Wood.
Henry S. Burke, the principal in the
noted $500, 900 land suit at Duluth, Mimi,
died at his home near Hudson, St Croix
County, the other day.
Lightning the other night wrecked the
Sixth ward schoolhouse at Eau Claire and
injured the Chippewa courthouse.
Charles j. Brooch was held for trial at
ShebOygan the other day on a charge of
bigamy. 1t was alleged that he married
Pauline Rickmeler, of Plymouth, August
80, 1885, and on February q, 1857, while
his first wife was still living, married
Mary Mason in Milwaukee.
The State Board of Pharmacy will meet
at Milwaukee August IL to examine candi.
dates
The new Lake Superior Iron Company,
at Hurley, purchased the Bessemer and
Moore mines a few days ago, the Moore
being SOLD for s2JJ, O0J and the Bessemer
for $780, 0J0. The purchase of these mines
completes the intended purchases of the
company, which now owns the following
mines: Iron Chief, Sunday Lake, Nimikon,
Kakagoz, Bessemer Bourne, Atlantic.
Moore and New York mines on the Goge-
bic; Prospect Hill, Florence, Youngstown
and Iron River mines on the Menominee
range.
Rats have so undermined the porch Of
the coUrt- hOuSo at Ia f.roeqa that fba large